Sharp diary 1918 page 125. Thursday 2 May 1918 - Buena Vista
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Thursday 2nd of May 1918
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Really a "pretty" day — as they say here, cloudless, heat-misty in the morning & warm in the afternoon with a coolish breeze. Walked out in the morning to the settlement behind the seminary and worked pretty hard at it till lunch time but got absolutely nothing. We found it an industrial quarter, nearly every house providing one or more members to the Stationery factory, or the paper, fertiliser[?], or furnace and those at home disinclined to receive strangers, let alone sing to them. Directly after lunch called on Mrs Wheeler and spent a long time there taking down songs and afterwards photographing the delightful but dirty family, 13 in all, 7 of her own and 6 step-children. Then at last ran the Howard Campbell’s to earth only to find that although they had been having one & two dances per week at their house through the winter they had just discontinued them. Found out they always danced the square-eights, apparently in the Afton manner. Dictated first part of Afton dance to Maud in the evening but the squalling children and negro music was so distracting we fled at 9.30 to the drug store and drowned our cares in soft drinks!Location
USA : Viginia : Buena Vista [0,0]
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